The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-30
SUMMER DRESSES.
Charming Cotton Fabrics That Can Ne
Made Up at a TriAlng Cost

Charming Cotton Fabrics That COH Ne
Made Up at TriAlng Cost
Women with small incomes oan have
q variety of pretty dresses this season
Mt small expense. provided they choose
suitable fabrics, and make them up in
simple styles, Among cotton goods.
satteens and ginghams are most in
favor here, while imported dresses
brought over by French modistes ara
of the old-fashioned sprigged lawns,
pin-dotted muslins, and thicker Cham
berys and percales. Satteens are liked
in dark shades of blue, heliotrope OF
brown, because they are not easily
soiled, and as they are sent to the
cleaners instead of the family laun-
dress, they are made up with Innings
just as wool or silk dresses are made.
They have basque with velvet collar.
cuffs and revers, and a pleated skirt
with apron drapery. Ginghams arc
liked for their dainty freshness, and
are therefore chosen in light colors.
and made without lining or foun-
dalton skirt, with a view to
being easily ironed. The gather
ed belted waist is excellent for ging-
hams, with the fullness only at the belt,
or else carried up to the neck in front
A collar of embroidery may be made
standing or turned over in Byron shape,
as French dresses are now shown quite
low at the throat The coat sleeves,
the shirt sleeves with wristband, or the
full pulled sleeves are all suitable for
these dresses. For home wear full
round gathered skirt simply hemmed
will complete a gingham dress prettily,
but for general wear it is more usual
to have plated skirt and apron drap-
cry. The skirt may be a regular kilt
held by tapes passed underneath, or
there may be foundation skirt OF
G ngham with one or two gathered
flounces around it, as these gathered
ruffies are easily laundried. Law
ender and heliotrope ginghams
with white or with primrose
stripes are in great demand this
summer, with loops and bows of dark
er velvet ribbon on the neck and
sleeves. Blue and gray ginghams are
cool and fresh-looking, and are made
up in checks, large plaids and stripes
of two shades, alternating with white.
Yoke waists gathered to belt and
yoke basques are seen in stylishly made
bingham dresses; the latter have the
yoke in the front only, forming deep
point almost to the waist line, with
fullness below the yoke concealing the
, darts of the lining, and coming almost
to point at the end of the basque.
There are also many pretty cotton
dresses made with the basque of plain
satteen Or bingham, while the skirt and
its drapery are of the same fabric in
large plaids or in wide stripes. their
I predominating color matching that Of
the basque.
The sheer lawns are imported in
solid colors-pale mauve, sky blue.
rose pink and lilac-with tiny specks
or embroidered dots all over them.
These may be as simply made as thicker
fabrics, but the modistes show them
made up in polonaises shirred on the
E corsage and trimmed with point d'es-
, prit lace This lace fills in a V space
, as a plastron or longer vest, and it
. is laid in folds around the collar, with
its pointed edge uppermost, and fin
ished in the back with bow of itself;
+ rows of lace are placed around or down
: the sleeves. Sprigged muslins show
q punches of heliotrope or OF sweet
o peas or carnations on white grounds
that have also small dots wrought
all over them. These have festooned
\ draperies and founces edged with lace,
caught up between the festOons by
small bows or loops of watered ribbon.
= Chambery dresses of dark red, blue.
- pink, brown, gray or mauVe have
founces embroidered with white put
q around the skirt, or the embroidery is
t in lengthwise rows like insertion. when
: it may be used either for the drapery
Il or to form the lower skirt. Sometimes
3 the flounces are joined together, AID
q put lengthwise down long drapery
Z and around its edges, falling on q
pleated skirt of the plain Chambery.- -
-Hdrper'S Bazaar.